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Major Auctions!

Below you will find the following:

• Consigning to our great 25th Annual Halloween Auction is NOW CLOSED!
• It is now time to consign to our December Major Auction, which we want to make our best auction of the year!
• Our great August Major Auction concluded with exceptional results!
• HERE IS ABSOLUTE PROOF YOU GET FAR MORE CONSIGNING TO US THAN ANY OTHER MAJOR AUCTION!
• We don't accept ANY sub-$30 consignment items at all (even for bulk lots), and lesser condition items must be $50+!
• Why eMoviePoster.com is FAR AND AWAY the world's #1 vintage poster auction house
• What's so SPECIAL about eMoviePoster.com that makes us the ONLY place you should consign to?

Our three-part 25th Annual Halloween Auction starts early this year (on October 1st, 3rd, and 6th). That means that all consignments had to be sent no later than September 6th (they had to be ON THEIR WAY by that date, NOT arrive here by that date)!

As of 6/14, we have entered 1,912 items for this most special auction, including the ones pictured below! And of course there are LOTS more on their way to us, and others we have received but not yet entered!

And YES, you read right. This IS a 3 part auction, as we did last year! And when I said this Halloween Auction is "great", I am not exaggerating one bit! You know how EVERY other major auction but us has a "round up the usual suspects" feel to them, filled with items that supposedly recently sold for vast sums of money, but for some reason they keep coming back to auction again and again and again?

You will never see that is OUR auctions, because what we sell REALLY sells (in the very rare cases where the buyer never pays we always reveal that, and when the buyer later re-consigns the item we reveal that too!). And we make a MASSIVE effort to track down items we have NEVER auctioned before, or have only auctioned long ago, which gives OUR auctions a "fresh" quality you never see in other auctions. One quick look at the preview ads below confirms that this is completely true with this auction!

Since it is now too late to consign, just return to our site October 1st, when Part I of this auction goes "live". And below are items that are all guaranteed to be in this most special set of auctions!

It is now time to consign to our December Major Auction, which we want to make our best auction of the year!

Our great August Major Auction has concluded with exceptional results!

Our August Major Auction is "in the books" and below is an image with the top 12 results. But you can see EVERY result at this link: https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/4/date/2024-08-04/archive.html

And if you look at the image, you can see that we had a LOT of spectacular results! And you can also see that 11 different buyers bought those 12 items. The reason you can see this is because we are the ONLY major auction that doesn't hide the winning bidder IDs from our bidders. The auction took in $493,603.00, bringing our year to date total to $3,533,190.00. And these are all REAL sales, something no other major auction can say!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL THE RESULTS OF THIS WONDERFUL AUCTION IN OUR GALLERY FORMAT (or go to https://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/4/date/2024-08-04/archive.html)!

HERE IS ABSOLUTE PROOF YOU GET FAR MORE CONSIGNING TO US THAN ANY OTHER MAJOR AUCTION!

On 12/7/2023, another major auction company sold an example of the one-sheet from The Empire Strikes Back that has unedited Kastel art, and it sold for $20,000. On 12/19/2023 (12 days later), our company, eMoviePoster.com, sold a different example of the one-sheet from The Empire Strikes Back that has unedited Kastel art, for $21,500.

I am NOT bragging about the $1,500 difference, because in the big scheme of things, getting a 7.5% difference in price is not that big a deal, and it COULD have gone either way. And I am not saying that we did a "better" job, or that the other auction did a "lesser" job, or that theirs was in better condition, because we use different grading scales.

But this brings up a great point. A few collectors (especially "newbies") have a perception that the auctions that print fancy catalogs and have giant showrooms sometimes get more money than we do. BUT THIS IS NOT BORNE OUT IN ACTUAL RESULTS! When you compare "like items" (apples to apples and oranges to oranges), you will find that we at eMoviePoster.com often DO get more than the "fancy catalog" auctions.

This is almost surely because we describe the condition far and away the best of ANY auction anywhere, and we ALWAYS post completely unenhanced images of what we are auctioning. THIS takes away the "fear factor" so many collectors have when buying from auctions that can't always be trusted to accurately grade what they are auctioning, and who sometimes will enhance an image to make it appear better than it is.

But back to what I was saying about the difference in the price WE received for our Empire Strikes Back one-sheet and what the other auction got for their Empire Strikes Back one-sheet. What I AM focusing on is the GIGANTIC difference in how much money the CONSIGNORS of the two posters received, and why THIS says so much about where YOU should consign! What do I mean? The poster at that other auction sold for $16,000 "hammer" price, plus a 25% "buyers premium, for a total of $20,000.

The consignor of that poster paid 15% of the hammer price in commission, $2,400, so HE RECEIVED $13,600 OUT OF THE $20,000 SALE! The poster at eMoviePoster.com sold for $21,500 "hammer" price, plus ZERO PERCENT "buyers premium, for a total of $21,500.

The consignor of our poster paid 10% of the hammer price in commission, $2,150, so HE RECEIVED $19,350 OUT OF THE $21,500 SALE! SO OUR CONSIGNOR RECEIVED $19,350, AND THE OTHER CONSIGNOR RECEIVED $13,600, A DIFFERENCE OF FIVE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS!

AND EVEN IF THE OTHER POSTER HAD SOLD FOR $25,000 AND OURS HAD SOLD FOR $20,000, OUR CONSIGNOR WOULD STILL HAVE RECEIVED $1,000 MORE, EVEN THOUGH HIS POSTER SOLD FOR $5,000 LESS!

And this is not solely true with super expensive items! Go to https://www.emovieposter.com/learnmore/?page=consign#intro On that page you will find a detailed breakdown of what happens to someone who consigns a poster that sells for $15,000 at both auctions.

Also for posters that sell for $1,200, $600, $100, and $30 at both auctions, and THE COMPARATIVE RESULTS ARE PRETTY SHOCKING. When you compare, there is NO comparison! $13,200 or $9,000 for a $15,000 poster? $960 or $720 for a $1,200 poster?

$468 or $360 for a $600 poster? $72 or $53 for a $100 poster? And the most SHOCKING of all, 15 DOLLARS or 75 cents for a $30 poster? So if YOU have posters you have considered selling, shouldn't you consign them to eMoviePoster.com, where you get so MUCH more money for equivalent selling prices?

Please go to https://www.emovieposter.com/learnmore/?page=consign for a complete and transparent explanation of exactly how consigning to us works! And we CLEARLY state exactly what we charge at every price level, something you can't find at any other major auction site.

We don't accept ANY sub-$30 consignment items at all (even for bulk lots), and lesser condition items must be $50+!

SIXTEEN months ago, on May 1st, 2023 we announced we would no longer accept ANY sub-$30 consignments AT ALL (and those in under "good to very good" must be $50+). Almost ALL consignors have now realized this, and are either solely sending these lower priced items (or not sending any items), and that saves us massive time sorting through low value items, time we get to spend on the $30+ items we receive, which we are now getting to auction even faster than ever!

But a very few consignors continue to send low value items, and we are now simply returning those at the consignor's expense, so PLEASE, if you are one of the very few doing this, please stop doing so right away!

IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW WE STILL HAVE ANY "BULK LOT" AUCTIONS, THOSE ARE ALL ITEMS RECEIVED BEFORE 5/1/2023! WHEN THOSE ITEMS ARE GONE, THERE WILL BE NO MORE BULK LOTS AT ALL!

This added change has resulted in a much "leaner" eMoviePoster.com, one that does not auction hardly any lesser condition items, and I guarantee you all that bidders have greatly welcomed this change! AND IF THIS MEANS THAT ANY OF YOU NO LONGER WANT TO CONSIGN, I CAN ACCEPT THAT.

SIXTEEN MONTHS AGO I ALSO MADE A COMMITMENT TO ALL OF YOU! It is now the end of August 2024. I will continue running this business (just as I have for the past 34 years) through the end of 2025, at the very least!

Since that should roughly coincide with our TWO MILLIONTH auction (which I DO want to reach) I will go until 12/31/25 OR our 2,000,000th auction, whichever comes later!

After 12/31/25, I make no promises at this time. I MAY WELL continue longer (especially as I am SO liking the "new" eMoviePoster.com), or I MAY somewhat withdraw from the business so the employees run it more and more, or I MAY look for a buyer for it (possibly some of the employees themselves), or I MAY close it down!

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OUR CONSIGNORS? If YOU are someone with a house (or a warehouse) full of items, realize that for the next 17 months you have a effortless way to sell all your items, both with no work on your part, and you get to deal with the most honest and most trusted auction there is!

AFTER 2025 comes to an end, do those of you with a house (or a warehouse) full of items have a "Plan B" if we are no longer auctioning (which may or may not happen)? You surely DON'T want to sell your items one at a time, and you surely know most dealers would offer you pennies on the the dollar, and you surely know that almost every other auction would charge you huge fees and only want your best stuff, so SHOULDN'T YOU CONSIDER THE MERITS OF CONSIGNING TO US OVER THE NEXT SIXTEEN MONTHS?

And PLEASE don't tell me that your plan is to let your heirs worry about how to deal with your stuff after you are gone. That often works out terribly, and sometimes whole collections are literally trashed. Unless you positively hate your heirs, do not choose this option!

Over and over the past few years, very long time collectors with huge collections have told me that "we need to have a talk one of these days" because they need to make a plan on how they will deal with their collection. That time has now come, and all of you have 18 months left in which figure out what to do, and you want to start thinking about this sooner than later!

Now I have no crystal ball! Maybe a new auction like ours will emerge down the line that offers a reasonable alternative to auctioning through us. I hope that occurs. But for right now, I feel that what I say above makes a massive amount of sense for those of you who are in an age bracket (or a point in your life or collecting) where you want and need to do SOMETHING with your collection sooner than later!

If YOU are someone like the collectors or dealers I describe above with a house (or a warehouse) full of items that you would love to no longer have (while getting them into the hands of people who will treasure, and with doing little work on your own), please feel free to email or phone me so we can discuss "your next step"!

WE WANT TO BUILD AN EMOVIEPOSTER.COM THAT CAN KEEP BEING THESE BEST AUCTION HOUSE THERE IS FOR YEARS TO COME, AND IT IS ONLY THROUGH STRICTLY ENFORCING THE ABOVE RULES ABOUT SENDING NO MORE SUB-$30 ITEMS AT ALL (AND NO MORE LESSER CONDITION SUB-$50 ITEMS) THAT WE CAN DO SO. IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EVERY COLLECTOR AND CONSIGNOR FOR THAT TO HAPPEN! THANKS FOR BEING UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEED FOR STRICTLY ENFORCING THESE SIMPLE RULES

Why eMoviePoster.com is FAR AND AWAY the world's #1 vintage poster auction house

What's so SPECIAL about eMoviePoster.com that makes us the ONLY place you should consign to?

Below are testimonials from some of our longest term consignors (and one very special recent one!) about WHY they love consigning to us! Because we know full well deciding WHERE to consign can be VERY confusing, we asked our longest term consignors (and one very special recent one!) to write our their experiences consigning to us, to help those "on the fence" about WHERE to consign their items! If any of you consignors reading this would like to share their experiences, please email us with your comments!

Click on the above images to see much larger "more readable" versions!

And If YOU have $30+ items you would like to consign (lesser condition items must be $50+), why not head over to https://www.emovieposter.com/learnmore/?page=consign and read our "no fine print" terms, and learn how you can join the 3,235+ others who have consigned $115 million of items to us!